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Zlatko Zahovič scored many goals on the field, but the Slovenian public is now watching him score own goals off the field, the regional newspaper Primorske Novice says on Tuesday as it comments on the Maribor sport director's verbal abuse of a journalist.

The newspaper Dnevnik describes the verbal attack of the director of the Maribor football club Zlatko Zahovič against a journalist as only the latest on a long list of his incidents, but notes that the former star seems to get more extreme each time. It adds that the Maribor club is facing two very bad options.

Zlatko Zahovič, director of football at reigning football champions Maribor, has come under fire for insulting a reporter of the sports newspaper Ekipa whose father was murdered last year. The Maribor club has already apologised, but Zahovič, a former international star, remains defiant.

On the eve of meeting Austrian counterpart Karina Kneissl in Ljubljana, Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec received on Monday representatives of the Slovenian minority in Austria. The meeting was also attended by Minister for Slovenians Abroad Gorazd Žmavc.

Lilijana Kozlovič, the chief government negotiator in pay talks with public sector trade unions, has suspended the negotiations in wake of PM Miro Cerar's resignation. She said on Monday it would be irresponsible to make any deals that would affect public finances on the final day the government has full powers.

The SBI TOP index of the Ljubljana Stock Exchange was up 0.26% to 825.29 points on Monday, as no item on the prime market ended in the red. The biggest gainer was insurer Zavarovalnica Triglav, which was up 0.63% to EUR 31.70 on volumes worth EUR 5.3m. Stock brokers wrapped up a total of EUR 11.05m in deals.